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Addicts will be able to seek help from their local police department under a bill that Governor Christie signed into law on Wednesday.

Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Kearney rested the state’s case Wednesday, shortly before 3 p.m.

The first blast of winter was set to hit North Jersey for the Thursday morning commute, with a mixture of snow and sleet forecast for Passaic County and northwestern Bergen County, and potentially hazardous freezing rain for Sussex County.

“This evening means everything to me,” Victor Cruz said as he took a breather from signing jerseys and footballs for kids who looked up at him in awe.

The two city blocks along Englewood Avenue from William Street to S. Van Brunt Street have been renamed the Lincoln School District, honoring a school that was the focus of a fight to desegregate city schools in the 1960s.

A pair of earthquakes rattled central Italy late Wednesday, sending fearful residents running into the streets not far from where a powerful temblor killed nearly 300 people in August.

It's too bad for Donald Trump that Secret Service protection doesn't extend to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Det. Mark Peterson of the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office testified in Superior Court in Paterson that cell phone towers near Rosa Parks Boulevard were communicating with a cell phone that Jeffrey Ellerbee of Paterson used several times on July 5, 2014.

Hillary Clinton appears on the cusp of a potentially commanding victory over Donald Trump, fueled by solid Democratic turnout in early voting, massive operational advantages and increasing enthusiasm among her supporters.

Robert Hyer Jr., a borough resident, was jogging “along the westbound curb” of East Clinton Avenue near the intersection of Woodland Street early Tuesday morning when he was struck by a small SUV.